Grade 8 PISA SUMMATIVE Q3 Week 5 Cohesive Device

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The Kiki challenge is a classic example of how things started in a fun way can become dangerous. However, the Momo challenge and the Blue Whale Game were started with an intention of cybercriminals preying on young vulnerable children by hooking them to the games with a life-threatening endpoint. Both the games work on the psychology of cognitive distortion, loss of touch with reality, social isolation and fear. The main role to be played by the government should be raising awareness about such challenges and making professional support available and accessible. Policing is not an answer to these challenges because the children need support and understanding as well as right interventions and education of care-givers such as parents and teachers to recognize the early signs of mental health issues.

                                                                                             Source: Brainfeed Magazine, October 2018

1. Select the sentence that uses a cohesive device appropriately:

Which cohesive device best connects the following ideas?

"Policing is not a solution to online challenges. ______, children need support and understanding."

Identify the cohesive device in this sentence:

"Parents and teachers should be educated to recognize mental health issues early so that timely interventions can be made."

Select the most appropriate cohesive device to complete the sentence:

"Governments should raise awareness about dangerous challenges. ______, professional support should be accessible."

5. Identify the cohesive device in this sentence:

"Parents and teachers should be educated to recognize mental health issues early so that timely interventions can be made." 

a) and        b) so that        c) early        d) can

General Instruction: Read the whole selection by answering numbers 6-10. Choose the correct cohesive device inside the parenthesis. 

Ladies and gentlemen,

    6. ______ (a. today       b. first), I would like to talk about a topic that has been a major public health concern for decades- smoking. 

7. Smoking is a dangerous habit that not only harms the smoker, _____ (a. as well as         b. but also) those around them. In my speech, I will discuss the health risks associated with smoking, the social and economic impacts of smoking, including strategies for quitting smoking. 

8. ______, (a. first          b. second) let's discuss the health risks associated with smoking. Smoking has been linked to a range of diseases, including lung cancer, heart disease, stroke, and respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). 

9. According to the World Health Organization, smoking is responsible for over 8 million deaths worldwide every year. _______ (a. and        b. thus) a leading  cause of preventable deaths. 

10. ______, (a. Meanwhile       b. Furthermore) smoking has significant social and economic impacts. 

ORPHANED LEOPARD CUB

            ManishaBarde of Dhamangaon village, in Nashik, Maharashtra, had stepped out of her hutto relieve herself one early August Morning, leaving the door ajar. Herchildren, who slept in the same bed with her, were inside. A bit drowsy, shereturned home soon to the warmth of her bed. She noticed her pet cat curled upbetween her two kids, inside the mosquito net. As Manisha crawled back inside,she felt the cat cuddle up to her. That’s when she realised she wasn’tsnuggling with a cat at all, but a leopard cub. It had been orphaned a monthago when its mother was accidently killed in a road accident and had snuck intothe hut, going straight to the bed for a nap.

Forest officials, who were soon alerted, trapped the three-month cub. Last heard, the cub was doing fine and under the care of the local forest department. It will be released into the wild once it is old enough to hunt.

Source: Reader’s Digest

Arranged numbers 11-15 according to the sequence of events to connect ideas logically and emphasize the need for multiple strategies to address human-wildlife conflict.

                                       Man and animals are interdependent. Even then most human

                               wildlife conflict incidents are caused by human behaviour. How can

                                         the conflict between human and animals be resolved?